Misandric vs Femicentric - What's the difference?
misandric | femicentric |
One who professes misandry; a hater of men.
One who displays prejudice against or looks down upon men.
woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric)
* 1986 , International Sociological Association. Biography and Society Research Committee, Oral History Society (Great Britain), Life Stores , Issue 2
* 1997 , Thomas Robbins, Millennium, messiahs, and mayhem: contemporary apocalyptic movements , page 66
* 2008 Jannie Hugo, Lucie Allan, Doctors for tomorrow: family medicine in South Africa , page 4
As adjectives the difference between misandric and femicentric
is that misandric is exhibiting or pertaining to misandry: hating or prejudiced against men while femicentric is woman-centric; focusing on women or pertaining to a focus on women (sometimes used pejoratively to imply such focus is misandric).As a noun misandric
is one who professes misandry; a hater of men.misandric
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Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* philandricCoordinate terms
* misogynicSynonyms
* misandristic * misandrousSee also
* misogynistic * misanthropicfemicentric
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Alternative forms
* femi-centricAdjective
(en adjective)- It is an order which is ‘femi-centric ’ — which reflects the distinctiveness of female roles and responsibilities.
- REVELATIONS The Linguistic Turn With the repetition of situated, equally parochial identities — Afrocentric, homocentric, Islamic, femicentric , and so on
- The femicentric nature of the family in South Africa, hinging as it does on women, reflects both the strength and weakness of the institution.
